Unit 1 Section C Using Language & Assessing Your Progress（重点练）-2020-2021学年高二英语十分钟同步课堂专练（人教版2019选择性必修第一册）

Section C Using Language & Assessing Your Progress UNIT 1 PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT 重点练 I.阅读理解 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were two young men from Germany who loved a good story. As university students, they became interested in folktales—traditional stories that people memorized and told again and again. They began to collect traditional folktales from storytellers all over Germany. Many were similar to stories told in France, Italy, Japan, and other countries. Between 1812 and 1814, the brothers published two books in German. These included stories like “Hansel and Gretel” and “Little Red Riding Hood. ” Despite the fact that Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are often associated with Snow White and Rapunzel, the brothers didn’t actually write any of those stories. In fact, the stories existed long before the two men were born in Germany in the mid 1780s. The fairy tales, in fact, were part of a rich oral tradition—passed down from generation to generation, often by women seeking to pass the time duri